This subtitle indicates the shared theme of the stories: the modern corporate workplace and its effect on those who sustain it at the lower levels.

The other managers are Barry, Harry, Mary, Perry, Sherry, and Kerrie, their similarities of name leading Dominio to think of them, Richard aside, as the Seven Dwarves.

When Dominio proposes a new product idea which could bring in a great deal of money, The Seven conspire to have him demoted then fired so they can steal it for themselves.

This story is told in a series of classified ads, commercials, memos, private emails, journal entries, and segments of movie scripts, which chart the decline and fall of a major company, Oneiricon, once its ambitious, acquisitive nature has reached its apex, leaving nothing left to achieve in the corporate world.

S. T. Joshi, a scholar of H. P. Lovecraft and the weird fiction genre, said that the book "displays a Thomas Ligotti at the height of his form".